Austria men's national basketball team
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The Austria men's national basketball team (German: Österreichische Basketballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in international basketball competition. The team is controlled and organised by Basketball Austria.
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| FIBA ranking | 66 1 (13 July 2026)[1] | ||
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| Joined FIBA | 1934 | ||
| FIBA zone | FIBA Europe | ||
| National federation | Basketball Austria | ||
| Coach | Aramis Naglić | ||
| Nickname(s) | Das Team (The Team) Unsere Burschen (Our Boys) | ||
| FIBA World Cup | |||
| Appearances | None | ||
| EuroBasket | |||
| Appearances | 6 | ||
| Medals | None | ||
| Championship for Small Countries | |||
| Appearances | 2 | ||
| Medals |  Gold: (1992, 1996) | ||
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| First international | |||
 Bulgaria 56–13 Austria  (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 27 April 1947) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
 Algeria 63–119 Austria (Böblingen, West Germany; 13 May 1975) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
 France 100–6 Austria (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 28 April 1947) | |||
Austria has competed at the EuroBasket six times throughout their history. Their best performance overall came at the 1951 tournament. However, the team is still seeking qualification to their first appearance on to the global stage at the FIBA World Cup.
History
EuroBasket 1947
Austria first competed in the European Basketball Championship at EuroBasket 1947, placing 12th of 14 teams. Initially, the team struggled and lost both of their preliminary round matches, along with their first semifinal round match. Then they defeated Albania to place second in the group and set up a match against the Netherlands for 11th and 12th place, which Austria lost after a long battle.
EuroBasket 1951
Austria made their second appearance on the continental stage at EuroBasket 1951 in Paris. The national team was eliminated from championship contention after finishing 1–3 in pool play and fourth in their group. They won all three of their first round classification games, however, advancing to the 9th–12th place classification semifinals. A loss to the Netherlands, but a win over West Germany propelled Austria into 11th place of the 18 teams in the tournament.
EuroBasket 1955
Austria's appearance at EuroBasket 1955 in Budapest began with a 2–2 showing in preliminary round play. This was good enough for third place in the pool, and Austria was pushed to classification play. There, they were able to win only 1 out of 4 games (the win coming against West Germany), placing fourth of the five teams in the group. Playing against Luxembourg and then Switzerland in classification for the 13th–16th place playoffs, Austria won both games to finish 13th of the 18 teams.
EuroBasket 1957
In Sofia for the EuroBasket 1957 competition, Austria was defeated three times in the preliminary round. Their 0–3 record put them last in their group and sent them to the classification pool. The team won two games there, finishing at a record of 2–5 to take an overall 14th place in the 16 team tournament.
Later years
Austria went on to qualify to the EuroBasket two more times in 1959 and 1977. But since then it has been a struggle for the national team to qualify for major international basketball tournaments.
Competitive record
FIBA World Cup
Olympic Games
Championship for Small Countries
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EuroBasket
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Results and fixtures
Win Loss
2025
| 2 August 2025 | Netherlands  |
65–64 | Austria |
The Hague, Netherlands |
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| 14:30 (UTC+2) | Scoring by quarter: 21–12, 13–23, 18–14, 13–15 | |||
| Pts: Enaruna 11 Rebs: Enaruna 7 Asts: Van der Vuurst, Ververs 4 |
Boxscore | Pts: Pöltl 16 Rebs: Pöltl 11 Asts: Güttl 3 |
Arena: Sportcampus Zuiderpark Attendance: 2,555 Referees: Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Julio Anaya (PAN), Ilias Kounellis (CYP) |
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| 6 August 2025 | Austria |
88–76 | Bulgaria |
Schwechat, Austria |
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| 19:20 (UTC+2) | Scoring by quarter: 24–14, 24–14, 28–25, 12–23 | |||
| Pts: Landesberg 26 Rebs: Pöltl 11 Asts: three players 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Mladenov 25 Rebs: Mladenov 7 Asts: Young 5 |
Arena: Multiversum Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Aleksandar Glišić (SRB), Josip Jurčević (CRO), Zdenko Tomašovič (SVK) |
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| 13 August 2025 | Austria |
83–70 | Netherlands |
Schwechat, Austria |
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| 19:20 (UTC+2) | Scoring by quarter: 19–10, 20–21, 30–17, 14–22 | |||
| Pts: Landesberg 14 Rebs: Pöltl 6 Asts: Friedrich 7 |
Boxscore | Pts: Leons 15 Rebs: Leons 8 Asts: Ververs 6 |
Arena: Multiversum Attendance: 3,000 Referees: Ademir Zurapović (BIH), Paulo Marques (POR), Igor Mitrovski (MKD) |
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| 16 August 2025 | Bulgaria |
87–78 | Austria |
Botevgrad, Bulgaria |
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| 18:00 (UTC+3) | Scoring by quarter: 23–17, 15–20, 24–22, 25–19 | |||
| Pts: Mladenov 30 Rebs: Mladenov 8 Asts: Alipiev, K. Toshkov 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Pöltl 23 Rebs: Pöltl 13 Asts: Friedrich 10 |
Arena: Arena Botevgrad Attendance: 2,200 Referees: Georgios Poursanidis (GRE), Kerem Baki (TUR), Marek Kúkelčík (SVK) |
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| 28 November 2025 | Poland  |
90–78 | Austria |
Gdynia, Poland |
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| 20:45 (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 22–18, 21–21, 26–21, 21–18 | |||
| Pts: Harding 32 Rebs: Ponitka 9 Asts: Harding 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Landesberg 20 Rebs: Ogunsipe 8 Asts: Vujošević 6 |
Arena: Gdynia Arena Attendance: 3,828 Referees: Martin Horozov (BUL), Carsten Straube (GER), Mehmet Şahin (TUR) |
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| 1 December 2025 | Austria |
68–86 |  Latvia |
Vienna, Austria |
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| 20:20 (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 24–20, 13–20, 17–29, 14–17 | |||
| Pts: Vujošević 27 Rebs: Vujošević 8 Asts: three players 3 |
Boxscore | Pts: Lomažs 24 Rebs: Šiliņš 5 Asts: Leimanis 6 |
Arena: Sport Arena Wien Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Yener Yılmaz (TUR), Ivor Matějek (CZE), Viola Györgyi (NOR) |
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2026
| 27 February 2026 | Austria |
71–81 | Netherlands |
Vienna, Austria |
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| 18:00 (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 13–17, 21–23, 19–15, 18–26 | |||
| Pts: Vujošević 23 Rebs: Schott 15 Asts: Vujošević 6 |
Boxscore | Pts: Van der Vuurst 25 Rebs: D. N'Guessan 13 Asts: Van der Vuurst 6 |
Arena: Sport Arena Wien Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Geert Jacobs (BEL), Çisil Güngör (TUR), Andrea Bongiorni (ITA) |
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| 1 March 2026 | Netherlands |
87–88 | Austria |
The Hague, Netherlands |
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| 14:30 (UTC+1) | Scoring by quarter: 23–18, 27–25, 17–18, 20–27 | |||
| Pts: Franke, Van der Vuurst 17 Rebs: Kruithof 10 Asts: Van der Vuurst, Ververs 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Schott 19 Rebs: Schott 11 Asts: Vujošević 13 |
Arena: Sportcampus Zuiderpark Attendance: 3,455 Referees: Zafer Yılmaz (TUR), Alberto Sánchez (ESP), Blaž Zupančič (SVN) |
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| 3 July 2026 | Austria |
77–123 | Poland |
Vienna, Austria |
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| 18:00 (UTC+2) | Scoring by quarter: 16–24, 12–29, 29–28, 20–42 | |||
| Pts: Zeleznik 14 Rebs: Kapic 5 Asts: Jakupović 5 |
Boxscore | Pts: Kolenda 23 Rebs: Olejniczak 8 Asts: Łączyński 7 |
Arena: Sport Arena Wien Attendance: 1,600 Referees: Yener Yılmaz (TUR), Ilias Kounellis (CYP), Nemanja Ninković (SRB) |
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| 6 July 2026 | Latvia |
112–66 | Austria |
Riga, Latvia |
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| 19:30 (UTC+3) | Scoring by quarter: 22–22, 32–20, 30–9, 28–15 | |||
| Pts: Laksa 20 Rebs: Ķilps 6 Asts: Skuja 10 |
Boxscore | Pts: Kapic 19 Rebs: Kapic 6 Asts: Friedrich 5 |
Arena: Xiaomi Arena Attendance: 9,219 Referees: Boris Krejić (SVN), Ivor Matějek (CZE), Mehmet Şahin (TUR) |
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| 30 August 2026 | Austria |
vs. |  North Macedonia |
Vienna, Austria |
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| 16:05 (UTC+2) | ||||
| Boxscore | Arena: Sport Arena Wien |
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2027
| 25 February 2027 | North Macedonia |
vs. | Austria |
North Macedonia |
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Team
Current roster
Roster for the 2027 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers matches on 27 February and 1 March 2026 against Netherlands.[2][3]
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Depth chart
Head coaches
Miodrag Stefanović – (1951)- Janos Gerdov – (1955)
Herbert Haselbacher – (1957–1959)
Jan Hluchý – (1977)- Hubert Schreiner – (1986–2000)
- Neno Ašćerić – (2008–2012)
- Werner Sallomon – (2013–2016)
Kęstutis Kemzūra – (2016–2017)
Matthias Zollner – (2017–2018)
Mike Coffin – (2018–2019)- Raoul Korner – (2020–2022)
- Chris O'Shea – (2022–2025)
Aramis Naglić – (2025–present)[4]
Notable players
- Jakob Pöltl – First Austrian-born player to get drafted and play in the NBA.
Past rosters
1947 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 14 teams
3 Frankl, 4 Hans Bohman, 5 Eder, 6 Ganglberger, 7 Franz Gluck, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 9 Paulin, 10 Konrad Pitsch, 12 Helmut Schmidt, 13 Richard Pollak, 15 Otto Schreiweiss, 16 Vostatek, 17 Hans Zsak, 29 Walter Ledl (Coach: ?)
1951 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 17 teams
3 Hans Zsak, 5 Gerhard Puschner, 6 Peter Vecernik, 7 Richard Pollak, 8 Herbert Haselbacher, 10 Walter Ledl, 13 Felix Schober, 15 Franz Gluck, 16 Hans Bohman, 17 Benno Binder, 18 Ewald Polansky, 19 Hans Praschl (Coach: Miodrag Stefanović)
1955 EuroBasket: finished 13th among 18 teams
3 Gunter Brousek, 4 Karl Hackl, 5 Franz Gebhard, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Helmut Schmidt, 9 Karl Thiering, 10 Helmut Schurer, 11 Baczinsky, 12 Johann Karall, 13 Karl Machek, 14 Peter Vecernik, 15 Karl Privoznik, 17 Alfred Probst (Coach: Janos Gerdov)
1957 EuroBasket: finished 14th among 16 teams
3 Nikolaus Waldingbrett, 4 Gunter Brousek, 5 Johann Karall, 6 Friedrich Walz, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Werner Grohs, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Waschkau, 12 Helmut Schurer, 14 Franz Vranitzky, 15 Alfred Probst (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)
1959 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 17 teams
3 Friedrich Walz, 4 Peter Kotas, 5 Franz Havlicek, 6 Oskar Doppes, 7 Ewald Polansky, 8 Herwig Schon, 9 Walter Ledl, 10 Karl Thiering, 11 Alfred Probst, 12 Heinz Vybiral, 13 Ernst Tutschek, 15 Karl Privoznik (Coach: Herbert Haselbacher)
1977 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams
4 Wolfgang Vlk, 5 Friedrich Miklas, 6 Bernhard Slavicek, 7 Peter Bilik, 8 Peter Poiger, 9 Herbert Watzke, 10 Erich Tecka, 11 Werner Meisinger, 12 Helmut Zimmel, 13 Walter Fuchs, 14 Peter Wolf, 15 Herbert Haselbacher (Coach: Jan Hluchy)
